The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-04-16

We were sorry to inform them that in some
instances il did get through. as We knew O.
some families that always took large nm
brella TO bed with them in severe storm
and the soil underneath very sandy and dry
there were no bad consequences, and the
town, as whole, was extraordinarily
healthy.
ut is easy TO observe that the young
couple have seen something of the world
and been in good company. Their manners
are easy; department, posture natural, and
with an mir of elegance, because appropriate.
Both are a little above the medium height
Mr.. Henshaw is a splendidly made man, Of
well.knit frame, erect, with handsome hair
and eye aud upward look with an elastic
step, and with so free and graceful poise
that when he advances to take your hand
and greet you, you seem at once TO be taken
into confidence. This pleasing popularity
is not to be explained by saying this is due
to his military training, and his association
with refined and cultivated people. We
think, rather, il is native in him, and the
outcome Of generous conhding, nature'
nobleness of spirit, cordality that finds
pleasure in your acquaintance, and willing.
ly expresses it. We believe that he is a
New Yorker, studied al the Naval Academy
at Annapolis, and atterward resigning mil.
i.ary life, gave himself to law studies--a
good foundation, &c 'tainly, for successful
life. A free intermixture in his unsettled
apartments Of stylish furniture, books, fish
ing tackle, and one or two splendid guns
and hunting pouch, bespeaks his love of
sports, as truly as Of literary pursuits.
"Of the lady we are not quite so sure.
OF course, young unmarried gent should
be all admiration. Tall, slender, with
wealth of hair and fresh, healthful Gem
plexion, not at all forward, not Il bit shy,
seriously in earnest her beautiful prayer
book, evidently used, lying conveniently
near on the center table--its II magnetic
presence. But that remark about the
shingles" took US down! There seems as
we look steadily at her and into her eyes, n
depth not at all common. We're she an out
and out Yankee, we should say she is cute,
evidently has sense and satire or dash
of humor, and appreciation of the ludicrous.
When introducing Mr.. HIS mother inlaw,"
there was slight twinkle in the eye, or n
suppressed tear. We wish we knew just
which it was. Had IL not been for the
shingles we should have certainly said
"tear," suggestion of the endeared and
sad. Surely the old lady (beg her pardon
the LADY, little stout and souherly, has u
marvellous dignity about her, and business
air, something apparently of practical tact.
Ia EN- ;hSs 6aan fart s s through ladder the other
measure to the small fractions ., "'r
we lose our guess. We believe there Is an
ultimate good in their coming, and that as a
household they carry weight, with plastic
forces and with power of growth. Time will
tell"
As matter OF iacl, reporter aside, rs
might have been nationally expected, Miss
Sarah l.. Tyler was born in New England, in
corner Of the state at that. In that corner
lived cold Put" whose daughter, her grand
father aid.de camp of the general in Revo-
lutonary times, mareid. On the death OF
this woman he married again this time in
the clerical line, of New England geneology,
daughter of Timothy Edwards, son Of Jon
athan, otherwise "President'' Edwards, the
greatest metaphysician New England ever
hal, and for century its statelicst divine
IL max es one shudder to think of it Those
awfully cold meeting houses, with never
fire in them DR.. Edwards, with overcoat
and mittens on, holding his little bits Of
pages of the finely written sermon in his two
hands, and reading without gesture the
Congregation III III nR"hJ VI ""h''N''"'
under majestic. overwhelming truth, often
rising to their feet, awest struck, solemn as
death The modern preacher, with has
"whole continents of egotism,' his agonz-
| ing Jokes, his easy familiarity in prayer and
in pulpit department, his slangy CHATTER on
secular themes, or secular treatment OF
sacred themes, had he then appeared, might
not have been deemed too sacrilegous as a
keeper of an oyster stand at general train.
! ing, but unfit for any meeting house, where
the first impression made was, GLOW holy
is this place; this is none other than the
house of God" Timothy Edwards eldest
daughter Sarah, was Mrs. flenshaw's grand
mother, and in that way Sarah Edcdrds Ty-
Ter WAS close akin, not only TO the Ed
wardses, but also to the Woolseys, Win
lthrops, Sedgwicks, Porters, Dwights, and
the crest :" historic names, "the intellec.
tual Brahmius, of New England as DR..
Oliver Wendell Holmes discovered, adding
that "he always noticed that any scholar at
tanning disticntion at college came from
acme branch of these few families, chiefly